Workshop with Chris O'Neal

Surveying the landscape of the building - finding a starting place for the whole school, talking to principal about here is where we are and how I need your support

• Essential Conditions (handout)
• My school's needs: shared vision, student centered activity, internal digital equity
• Priority in fixing - shared vision, student centered activity, internal digital equity
• Most successful - equipment access
• Talk to principal about survey and then get her to deliver it, as teh building champion of technology; use the instrument even if the principal doesn't buy in but explain it: consider a survey, but dot thing needs to be done in group to share and discuss findings

Invitations to Administrators for Technology keynotes and discussions

• What about the principals who don't attend?
• http://www.profilerpro.com/

  My ISTE Teacher Skill Survey Results

  • Needs assessment tool
  • Free, and others get to use my questions
• New Student Technology Proficiencies
  • involves other curricular areas, science probes in K-1
  • very SOL connected
  • better blended into other content
  • more difficult to assess and accomplish
• Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org/
  • Great place to find videos that we can show and pick apart
  • Video examples
  • "Turning on Technology
  • Shows partnerships between teacher and crs
  • interviews teachers, parents, and prinicpals and they talk about the standard tests and how it these activities made them nervous at first, etc.
  • Shows how projects evolve and grow year to year